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The shooting occurred outside an apartment building on Salvail Court in Nashua, where 31-year-old Daniel DeGrace lives.

Both DeGrace and 30-year-old Benjamin Mayberry told police they witnessed the shooting, according to court paperwork. Mayberry claimed a third man named “Jay” also witnessed the shooting, police said.

DeGrace and Mayberry were later taken into custody in Vermont near the Canadian border. Police said they discovered 18 firearms, jewelry, a hunting license and other items in the vehicle.

Both men told police the items were stolen from a camp in Vermont. Mayberry added that he and DeGrace planned on selling all of the stolen goods and splitting the profits, police said.

DeGrace told police that he sold one of the guns, a pink .22-caliber pistol, to Parker for $60 after returning to Nashua. He said Parker was showing off the gun when he accidentally shot himself, police said.

DeGrace told officers he then grabbed the gun from the fallen victim, Parker, because it had his fingerprints on it and later threw it into the Merrimack River in Manchester. Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley said DeGrace has been charged with falsification of evidence, a felony, for throwing the gun in the river.

The men told police they fled to Franconia Notch to sleep for a few hours, and planned to dump all of their stolen merchandise into a body of water before fleeing to Canada to hopefully evade capture, police said in the criminal complaint.